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<blockquote data-quote="irdeggman" data-source="post: 3694978" data-attributes="member: 16285">With all of the postings and discussion on psionics (for years) it is my opinion that anyone who just inserts it and then gets surprised becasue they didn't understand the system and then posts on boards for possible &quot;remadies&quot; realy only has themselves to blame.I have chosen not to insert Incarnum into my games for precisely this reason. I don't understand it well enough to just throw it in.There is a huge difference between inserting a class or feat and an entire system. Psionics is a system as is Incarnum. There are a lot of other issues than merely handling a single class.I would definitely go along with the play-test system for when attempting to insert something drastically new (like psionics or incarnum) - but that should be specified up front and not as a result of &quot;it is broken because I don't play the game in a way that is conducive to the system&quot;. If the game being run is not in a way that is conducive to a system then don't use the system. If for example the DM typically only runs a single encounter per day then psionics is not a good match, neither is spontaneous casters.My main point was that before inserting something into a game the DM needs to think it over carefully or else he is asking for trouble - and that is proven time and time again on these boards alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="irdeggman, post: 3694978, member: 16285"] With all of the postings and discussion on psionics (for years) it is my opinion that anyone who just inserts it and then gets surprised becasue they didn't understand the system and then posts on boards for possible "remadies" realy only has themselves to blame. I have chosen not to insert Incarnum into my games for precisely this reason. I don't understand it well enough to just throw it in. There is a huge difference between inserting a class or feat and an entire system. Psionics is a system as is Incarnum. There are a lot of other issues than merely handling a single class. I would definitely go along with the play-test system for when attempting to insert something drastically new (like psionics or incarnum) - but that should be specified up front and not as a result of "it is broken because I don't play the game in a way that is conducive to the system". If the game being run is not in a way that is conducive to a system then don't use the system. If for example the DM typically only runs a single encounter per day then psionics is not a good match, neither is spontaneous casters. My main point was that before inserting something into a game the DM needs to think it over carefully or else he is asking for trouble - and that is proven time and time again on these boards alone. [/QUOTE]

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